Improvement in coffee-pot holders



NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH THATOHER WOODS AND ERNEST HENRY LESElVIAN, OF TOLEDO, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN COFFEE-POT HOLDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 121,444, dated November 28, 1871; antedated November 26, 1871.

To all lwhom 'it may concern:

Beitknownthatwe,JosErHTHAToHERWooDs, and ERNEST HENRY LEsEMAN, of Toledo, in the county of Lucas and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Coffee- Pot Holders; and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawing and to the letters of reference marked thereon making a part of this specification.

The nature of our invention consists in the construction and arrangement of a coffee-pot holder, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which our invention appertains to make and use the same, we will now proceed to describe its construction and operation, referring to the annexed drawing, in which- Figure 1 is a side view of our holder, and Fig. 2 is a plan view.

Arepresents aplate of any suitable dimensions, provided with an upward-projecting iian ge around its entire circumference, and secured by a screw, d, through its center to the upper end of a clamp, B. This clamp is constructed, as shown in Fig. 1, so as to have a curve, a, projecting downward below the table to which the clamp is attached. The clamp is provided with two projecting arms, b b, through the lower one of which the screw o passes to fasten it to the table.

This holder is to be attached, as shown, to the edge of the table, the table-cloth falling into the curve a.

This holder possesses many advantages over others for the same purpose, some of which arethat the table-cloth is entirely untouched by heat or moisture; the cloth can be removed without moving theI coffee-pot holder; it is more secure; the rim and the attachment prevent its being drawn from the table by children, &c., thus often preventing accidents; it gives additional room on the table; it can be used for other purposes, such as holding water-pitcher, the elevation from the table-cloth preventing injury to the same from dropping of water on the outside of the pitcher.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The within-described coee-pot holder as a new article of manufacture, consisting of the plateA, clamp B, and screw C, the clamp havinga downward curve, a, substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.

In testimony that we claim the lforegoing we have hereunto set our hands this 8th day of March, 1871.

JOSEPH THATGHER WOODS. ERNEST HENRY LESEMAN.

HORACE TEATGHER. (88) 

